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by naringas 7y ago
> You have to already be an experienced cook to be able to use such recipes. and there's only one way to acquire cooking experience: namely cooking. A "fake it until you make it" attitude is helpful; at worse you'll m
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by naringas 7y ago
it's not instinct, it's a combination of using your sense of smell (thinking with your nose) and practice (pretty much trial and error).
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by naringas 7y ago
I once set up an Elasticsearch cluster in Kubernetes. My conclusion was that it was totally redundant because in the end I made a few super-nodes that each run one super-pod (which is basically just one node from the elasticsearch cluster)
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by naringas 7y ago
from the article: CPython since 3.3 makes the same idea three-level with UTF-32 semantics: Strings are stored as UTF-32 if at least one character has a non-zero bit in its most-significant half. Else if a string has a non-zero bits in its s
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by naringas 7y ago
> I say this because more and more I notice people using "pseudoscience" in a sense similar to "heresy" I think that for some people science has replaced religion as a belief and social control system For these people
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by naringas 7y ago
why not? it certainly is technically feasable
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by naringas 7y ago
this behavior is worse than that. it basically says, "I won't search for that keyword, here are some results without it"
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by naringas 7y ago
yea, but in that case the problem isn't entering the hole, but the obsessive personality. As an obsessive person myself, knowing how to stop, how to put things down and "grasp for air", is something I had to learn to do (medi
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by naringas 7y ago
I like this interpretation: > when they bit the apple they realized the cost of everything they've been consuming up that point. It was the bill for living in the garden.
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by naringas 7y ago
that piece of advice is a paradox if I choose to ignore it, I have actually followed it! heheheh
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by naringas 7y ago
this is the criticized argument > large scale blocking of cookies undermine people’s privacy by encouraging opaque techniques such as fingerprinting. With fingerprinting, developers have found ways to use tiny bits of information that va
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by naringas 7y ago
I wonder what a person from Taiwan might think
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by naringas 7y ago
> Common descent is a core tenet but that doesn't mean it's been proven through experimentation, does it? isn't it just an assumption? what if there's something akin to mathematical uniqueness in the mechanics of the
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by naringas 7y ago
if WeWork is a tech compnay, what's their technology?
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by naringas 7y ago
maybe he was a Java programmer? all joking aside, the reason he's doing classes seems to be an intention towards making a FooStep (and/or a BarStep) which could then maybe handle generic Foo stuff (authentication comes to mind) in
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by naringas 7y ago
what code are you refering to? if you mean DNA, then humans do not "speak" (nor think in) this code, heck... teams of people with post-docs don't even really understand it.
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by naringas 7y ago
> "can you consciously stop decoding the English I'm speaking now?" as a speaker of English as a second language this used to happen to me once I was sufficiently tired. I can almost do it in my native language if I am dis
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by naringas 7y ago
but Shoppify's model doesn't involve marketing, they leave all that up to the merchants. so shoppify itself isn't directly affected by this.
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by naringas 7y ago
digital copying has never existed before, it's a new ability due to computer and information technology. up to the internet any digital (or analog) copies needed to be transfered along with a physical (thus exclusive) object. of course
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by naringas 7y ago
the digital nature of information removes the need of exclusive ownership. we must find a way to make a marketplace function without exclusive ownership.
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by naringas 7y ago
interesting intro by Michael from Vsauce https://youtu.be/UCmPmkHqHXk
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by naringas 7y ago
the paradox isn't about what you are or aren't. but about what you should be. it is certainly a subtle nuanced issue.
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by naringas 7y ago
> We dont know what the properties of nothingness holds in our universe or how our universe of stuff behaves around nothingness. nothingness holds no properties. I think it's more useful to ponder how can we even talk about it to di
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by naringas 7y ago
so this is why (sometimes) my hopes for the future depend on mediocrity and corruption, when the system is this stupid medocrity and corruption (which are terrible) can save the day! does this mean that the system is even worse? (the answer
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by naringas 7y ago
I think that a soulution would involve locally copying anything you look at (nevermind the outdated notion of copyright). otherwise the problem becomes ensuring the immutability of bad actors how would change what they had published anyways
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by naringas 7y ago
the USA ("Western") system has to at least fabricate some charges or destroy the target's reputation. the PRC doesn't seem to have such 'cumbersome' restrictions.
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by naringas 7y ago
why would a partial refactor be bad for the mind? (I don't consider the mind to be digital, and the brain even less so) how can you know when you have completed a refactor?
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by naringas 7y ago
oops i.e. notice of mistake acknowledgement
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by naringas 7y ago
> with zero fees via Facebook products including Messenger and WhatsApp reminds me of the classic "If You're Not Paying For It, You Become The Product" edit: the prototypical crypto (bitcoin) has fees as the final (after t
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by naringas 7y ago
I don't understand why would creation require something beforehand, that seems to be transformation or transmutation of some sort. in any case, nothingness already makes no sense on its own

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